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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...separated from their children. Much like Jonathan Swift—specifically in his satire “The Lady’s Dressing Room”—Boyle seems determined to expose the raw humanity behind ideals of free love and art—the age and decay of the flesh hidden beneath elaborate outfits and artfully applied rouge. Or perhaps Boyle merely wishes to debunk the notion that people in the early to mid 1900s did not sweat—they glistened...

Author: By Catherine A Morris, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Novel Reveals Wright's 'Women' | 3/20/2009 | See Source »

...apathy, the piece develops a melody that tenses up with the introduction of electronic flares and static creeping into the background. The distortion of one key repeated phrase in the song and the eventual clumsy breakdown of the tune into silence lend it an incredible power of allegory for decay, like a sunny day degenerating into a damp and cloudy afternoon. Much of the rest of the album, however, is plagued with incomprehensible lyrics and tiring reverberations of electric blares.In an attempt to reshape the genre of noise pop, then, “Wavvves” has removed the essential...

Author: By Antonia M.R. Peacocke, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Wavves | 3/20/2009 | See Source »

...Wyoming (169), Rhode Island (797), Vermont (1,174), North Dakota (1,181), and South Dakota (1,545). However, the report also ranks the states according to parameters that go beyond their share of homeless children, factoring in, among other things, incidence of such health conditions as asthma and tooth decay. With that framework, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Hawaii, Rhode Island and North Dakota were rated among states that dealt best with the problem overall. At the bottom of the list: Texas, Georgia, Arkansas, New Mexico and Louisiana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Report Says 1 in 50 U.S. Kids Is Homeless | 3/10/2009 | See Source »

...crater of a room floating in darkness above the Mainstage, the set is both nowhere and anywhere, a claustrophobic box with no sense of time or place. “Outside of here, it’s death,” Hamm says, but inside has an air of decay as well. The uniform lighting almost never changes, and even the characters themselves are stuck in their initial locations. Cracks and water stains blemish the drab walls; outside light is prevented by boarded windows adorned with ragged, brown curtains. Adhering closely to Beckett’s own directions, this starkness...

Author: By Ali R. Leskowitz, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A.R.T.’s ‘Endgame’ Broods Beautifully Over Life’s Meaning | 3/8/2009 | See Source »

...Sorry for all the theatrics," she told the audience grimly. "It's called sciatica, but what it really is, is decay...

Author: By Lois E. Beckett | Title: Melancholy of a Nobel Laureate | 3/4/2009 | See Source »

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